The All Whites game against Qatar in Austria has been abandoned at half time when the New Zealanders refused to return to the field saying a player was racially abused.
My favourite is that how it’s so normal for us, that for a while the badminton team was known as the Black Cocks and somehow this happened without anyone thinking it was a bad idea.
“All Blacks” is New Zealand’s national team and one of the best in the world.
It’s because their uniforms are solid black.
I didn’t know there was an “All Whites” team, but it seems like they just copied the name to build off their renown.
It’s been their name for as long as I can remember… I can imagine it sounds weird for people not from NZ, but it’s pretty normal to us!
My favourite is that how it’s so normal for us, that for a while the badminton team was known as the Black Cocks and somehow this happened without anyone thinking it was a bad idea.
Yes, most of the sports team names are built off this.
So many that there’s a wikipedia page about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_national_team_nomenclature_based_on_the_“All_Blacks”